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Das Internet hat nicht nur Geschäftsmodelle und Lebensweisen verändert, es hat auch einen eigenen digitalen Dialekt hervorgebracht. Er zeigt sich in Bildern und Motiven, die viral durchs Web geistern: Internet-Meme sind überall und doch kaum zu greifen. Wer die Kultur der Internet-Meme verstehen will, die schon lange aus den digitalen Sphären herausgetreten ist, muss sich auf den vermeintlichen Quatsch einlassen, auf dem viele diese Meme basieren. Unter der Oberfläche zeigen sie eine neue digitale Populärkultur des Remix und Mashups. Dabei sind sie zugleich Sinnbild einer sich polarisierenden Gesellschaft, die Identitätskonflikte immer häufiger auch in einer Bildkultur austrägt, die ihre Distinktion aus Schnipseln, Referenzen und Kopien gewinnt. [Verlagshomepage]

Memes dienen nicht nur der popkulturellen Unterhaltung oder der Kunst, sie werden auch in der Politik, in lokalen und internationalen Wahlkämpfen oder auf Demonstrationen verwendet. In ihrer typischsten Form sind sie Text-Bild-Gefüge, die sich digital mit viraler Geschwindigkeit verbreiten und transformieren.Joanna Nowotny und Julian Reidy nehmen sich dieses Internetphänomens aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive an. Sie betreten Neuland, indem sie einzelne Memes kasuistisch analysieren und ihre Erkenntnisse systematisieren, um diese digitale Kommunikationsform definitorisch neu zu bestimmen - in stetem Bezug zu anderen digitalen Phänomenen wie dem trolling.

"What is a meme? What is in a meme? What does 'living in/with memes' actually mean? What do memes mean to human beings dwelling in a life-world at once connected and fragmented by the internet and social media? Answers to and ways of answering these and other meme questions that arise in social events represent human assistance in or resistance to meaning making. A pragmatic perspective on internet memes as a way of seeing in social life experience offers a unique window on how meme matters in mediated (inter)actions turn out to be inextricably intertwined with human beings' presencing and essencing in the life-world. Ultimately, this volume seeks to reveal what and how serious if not unsayable concerns can be concealed behind the seemingly humorous, carefree and colorful carnival of internet memes across cultures, contexts, genres and modalities. This book will be of some value to anyone keen on the dynamics of memes and internet pragmatics and on critical insights that can be garnered in kaleidoscopic multimodal communication. Originally published as special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020)"

Bericht über die 2. "Conference Consultative Nationale" des ANC vom 16.-23. Juni 1985 in Lusaka. Auszüge aus der Eröffnungsrede von Oliver Tambo, in der er u.a. auf folgende Aspekte eingeht: das Südafrikaproblem in seinem historischen Rahmen, das Verhältnis des ANC zur "Mouvement de la Conscience Noir", der Kampf des ANC von 1963-1974, die Chancen und Unzulänglichkeiten von Soweto (1976), die heutige Situation des ANC, besonders was die Bantustans und die Jugend anbelangt, die Zukunft des ANC. Im Anhang: das Verhältnis des ANC zur südafrikanischen KP. (DÜI-Ott)

Memes work as rhetorical weapons and discursive arguments in political conflicts. Across digital platforms, they confirm, contest and challenge political power and hierarchies. They simultaneously create social distortion, hostility, and a sense of community. Memes thus not only reflect norms but also work as a tool for negotiating them. At the same time, memes meld symbolic and cultural elements with technological functionalities, allowing for replicability and remixing.This book studies how memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways. Memes create a playful activity that follows a shared set of rules and gives a (shared) voice, which may generate togetherness and political identities but also increase polarization. As their template travels, memes continue to appropriate new political contexts and to (re)negotiate frontiers in the political. The chapters in this book allow us to chart the playful politics of memes and how they establish or push frontiers in various political, cultural, and platform-specific contexts. Taken together, memes can challenge and regenerate populism, carve out spaces for new identity formations, and create togetherness in situations of crises. They can also, however, lead to the normalization of racist discourses.This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Media and Communication Studies, Information Studies, Politics, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Information, Communication & Society

Internet memes are recognised for their role in creating community through shared humour or in-group cultural knowledge. One category of meme uses historical art pieces, coupled with short texts or dialogue, as a form of social commentary on both past and present. These memes often rely on a (mis)reading of the emotions of those represented in such artwork for humorous purposes. As such, they provide an important example of transhistorical engagement between contemporary society and past artifacts centred on the nature of emotion. This Element explores the historical art meme as a key cultural form that offers insight into contemporary online emotional cultures and the ways that historical emotions enable and inform the practices of such culture. It particularly attends to humour as a mode which helps to mediate the disjuncture between past and present emotion and which enables historical emotion to 'do' political and community-building work amongst meme users